We filigree and we baste. But what do the dead care for the… - Charles Wright

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We filigree and we baste.
But what do the dead care for the fringe of words,
Safe in their suits of milk?
What do they care for the honk and flash of a new style?

And who is to say if the inch of snow in our hearts
Is rectitude enough?

Charles Wright

rectitude the-dead

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Snub end of a dismal year,
deep in the dwarf orchard,
The sky with its undercoat of blackwash and point stars,
I stand in the dark and answer to
My life, this shirt I want to take off,
which is on fire . . .

Out of any two thoughts I have, one is devoted to death.

The ache for anything is a thick dust in the heart.

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